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Strange Question......I guess hotter magma rises to the surface of the mantle while colder magma sinks closer to the center....Sort of like a lava lamp!

When you plug in a lava lamp, it heats up at the bottom, just like the earth's magma. It's hot at the bottom and it cools at the top.

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How are lava lamp and the earth mantle alike?

Both the lava lamp and the Earth's mantle involve convection currents. In a lava lamp, heated wax rises and cools, creating a circulating motion. Similarly, in the Earth's mantle, heat from the core causes molten rock to rise, cool, and sink back down in a continuous cycle due to convection.


Describe how the mantle is like a lava lamp what does density have to do with this?

well its like magma


How does a lava lamp relate to mantle convention and plate tectonics?

A lava lamp can be used as an analogy to help understand mantle convection. In a lava lamp, heated wax rises to the top, cools and then sinks, creating a circular motion. This movement is similar to how the mantle of the Earth convects, with hot material rising and cooler material sinking, driving plate tectonics. Plate tectonics is driven by the convection currents in the mantle, causing the plates to move and interact at the Earth's surface.


What is the cause of tectonic plates?

One suggestion for the cause of plate tectonics is mantle convection which is the result of cooling and heating magma. You could think of mantle convection much in the same way lava flows in a lava lamp. Lava rises in a lava lamp because it heats up and becomes less dense. While at the top of the lava lamp, the heated lava begins to cool (because it's further away from the heat source (e.g. light) at the bottom) becoming more dense and then sinks back down to the original heat source where it will be reheated. This mantle convection is thought to work somewhat like a large conveyor belt in which the plates sit, moving them along.


How are lava form?

Lava is molten rock. The rock deep inside the earths mantle is always molten, and when it occasionally breaks through to the surface, the opening is called a volcano, and the liquid rock spilling out of the top is lava.


What kind of landforms are made by volcanoes?

It when plates colliding and making the volcanos also when the earths crust is open and the mantle or lava comes out,


What is upon the sky and what is under the land?

upon the sky is heaven is higher. under land is the earths crust,mantle and then pure lava.


What is earths mantle heated by?

Earth's mantle is mainly heated by the decay of radioactive isotopes and residual heat from the formation of the planet. This heat causes convection currents in the mantle which drive plate tectonics and other geological processes.


What size bulb does a lava lamp use?

It depends on the size of the lava lamp


Why is it called a lava lamp?

It is called a lava lamp because of its resemblance to flowing lava. The lamp contains wax or oil that moves in a mesmerizing way, similar to the slow movement of lava.


What is melted in a volcano?

mama also known as lava it's melted rock and other things and is from the earths mantle located under the crust


How do you know earths outer core is liquid?

Volcanoes allow the molten lava from the outer core to pass through weak spots in the mantle.